Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Love

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

10.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

12.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

13.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

15.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

16.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

17.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

19.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

28.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

29.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

30.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

31.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

36.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

37.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

38.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

39.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

40.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

41.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

42.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

43.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

44.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

46.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

48.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

49.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

50.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.